Pitch2us: Open Source Software for Incubators and Investors

Blog on July 14th, 2011 No Comments

We have been working on a simple Ruby on Rails application to allow incoming founders to pitch to us and our friends at Innovation Bay. Its a bit of a side project for us but we have a working, simple version that we thought other incubators and investors might find quite useful. So here it is. [...]

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Mogeneration Raise One Million Plus

Blog on May 10th, 2011 1 Comment

The Pollenizer team are very proud to announce that our very first portfolio company ever has secured a nice chunk of funding and, more importantly, some great board members. Big congrats to our old office mates Tom, Keith, Justin and the rest of the crew. The official release: Mogeneration, a leading Digital publishing provider, announced [...]

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Investors Can Cause Companies to Fail

Blog on October 28th, 2009 No Comments

Here’s an idea for you. I call it ‘The Inverse Law of Ambition’. Founders who focus, obsessively, on small things seem more likely to grow massive companies. Founders that focus on growing huge without paying attention to the small things, fail. Facebook is the best example of this rule in action. Even today, it is [...]

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Pre-Framing a Pitch To Stop The Demons

Blog on November 3rd, 2008 No Comments

(Before I start, I just want to say that this is a new idea and it still needs some exploring, so help me flesh out before eating my flesh)* Whilst having a sushi/beer dinner with Atari Boy last night, we were talking about how sometimes you have an idea, flesh it out, then as you [...]

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